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Brian Fitzgerald

I've been an activist with Greenpeace for 30 years. In that time, I've delayed a nuclear weapons test, hung a banner on the Statue of Liberty, sailed on four oceans, lived in six countries, saved whales and learned to pilot a hot air balloon for the cause. I was setting up email communications with alligator clips in Moscow in the mid 1980s, online activism websites in the early 90s, and jumped all over twitter when it debuted at SXSW in 2006. As an early adopter, I learned how to spot technologies Greenpeace might bend to activist purposes and organizational needs, and developed some skills in getting them adopted.

Did Danish authorities really hold our activists in prison for 20 days because they were diligently investigating how they got onto a red carpet at a state dinner during the Copenhagen climate conference? New evidence suggests not.

Day 11 of Ananth's solidarity fast, and here are his impressions of the climate summit proceedings. People around the world are pledging to go without food on Thursday, December 17th in solidarity with the Climate Justice Fast.

Here's a set of fragmentary impressions from the climate summit in Copenhagen penned by our Programme Director, Ananth, yesterday. If it looks a little bit like a cut-up prose poem in the tradition of Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs & Brion Gysin, i...Read more >